3Q: Sarah Ballard on astrophysics and gender equity in science
Kavli Institute postdoc and 2015 L'Oreal USA For Women in Science Award winner speaks on her career and why roadblocks remain for women in science.
Kavli Institute postdoc and 2015 L'Oreal USA For Women in Science Award winner speaks on her career and why roadblocks remain for women in science.
Though likely uninhabitable, planet is rocky, Earth-sized, and near enough for study of its atmosphere.
The world's most sensitive gravitational-wave detector is scheduled to go online this week, after seven years of enhancement.
MIT professor of physics honored with the highest teaching award in the American physics community.
Observations of 74 Earth-sized planets around distant stars may narrow field of habitable candidates.
Einstein’s theory of general relativity to be put through the paces as Advanced LIGO comes online.
Study explains why galaxies don’t churn out as many stars as they should.
Team describes use of method to determine properties of clouds surrounding the exoplanet Kepler-7b.
In support of three new experiments, MIT's Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano will answer questions about dark matter research in a live Google Hangout on Nov. 20.
The pulsar, about as large as the city of Boston, is 10 million times brighter than the sun.
MIT physicist lauded for his groundbreaking theory of cosmic inflation.
New model, spanning 13 billion years of cosmic evolution, makes important advances.